RPW Exclusive: Nick Sheridan Poised to Pick Up Where He Left Off in 2025

Column By: SHAUN BLIGHT / RPW – BARBERVILLE, FL – 2025 was the year that Nick Sheridan officially arrived on the sprint car scene.

After picking up 3 wins at Ohsweken Speedway (including one with the Empire Super Sprints) Sheridan picked up the win in the Northern Sprint Car Nationals at Ohsweken by passing perennial favourites Ryan Turner and Dylan Westbrook in the closing laps.

If 2025 was a sign of things to come, the 360 sprint car world has surely taken notice. Sheridan and his team travelled to Florida’s Volusia Speedway Park this past week to help kick-start their season early with the American Sprint Car Series. It is Sheridan’s first trip to “The World’s Fastest Half Mile”, and he took a liking to the track immediately.

“This place is fun, man. It’s fast.” said Sheridan. “I was surprisingly more comfortable here than I thought I would be. I was pretty nervous coming in, but we worked on the car a bit. We were pretty out-to-lunch, pretty free starting out. We learned a lot and got a lot better.”

Sheridan finished 14th on Friday night in a strong field of 45 cars, including the likes of multi-time All-Star Circuit of Champions Champion, and current High Limit Racing driver Tyler Courtney (who went on to win the feature in night one), multi-time ASCS Champion Sam Haferterpe Jr., and recent Chili Bowl Nationals Champion Emerson Axsom, just to name a few.

“Hopefully we just get better every single night, man. We set the bar pretty high. Honestly, making the feature last night, made it without a B-Main, that was pretty awesome for us. So we’ll just kind of try and keep getting better, and get the car better, get more comfortable, and if we could start running top-10, that’d be a lot of fun.”

Although Sheridan and his team don’t have a concrete schedule for 2026 outside of running weekly at Ohsweken Speedway, he does plan to have a fairly more aggressive schedule this year.

“I just want race as much as I can, lots more in the States. A couple more races with the 410, lots of 360 races, and obviously the home track, Ohsweken Speedway, and try and get a championship there.”

“We’ve been trying to get that for a couple years now, we’re gonna keep digging. Hopefully we can get better there and get after that this year, but I would just keep doing the best we can and having fun along the way.”

Sheridan did hint at a few special events that they have circled on their calendar again in 2026, such as the Great Lakes Super Sprints races at Eldora Speedway, including a return to 4-Crown Nationals weekend, with the possibility of both 360 and 410 shows. However you could see the red and black #45 at more American events than just those ones.

“We will probably do some Pennsylvania and Ohio (races) just kind of pick-and-choose what we can do, maybe part-time Empire Super Sprints Speedweek and just play it by ear from there on out.”

Although Dylan Westbrook would still be considered the favourite to secure another track championship at Ohsweken, there’s little doubt that the competition gap is closing, and in particular, due to the rise of drivers like Nick Sheridan over the past couple of seasons. The fans at Ohsweken Speedway, and surrounding areas for that matter, are certainly in for a treat when the green flag finally drops on the sprint car season in southern Ontario beginning at Merrittville Speedway on April 25th.